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LaCie 2big Thunderbolt 2 User Manual
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Go to the next section to clean the hard drives before formatting them.
Windows: Clean the hard drives
Since the hard drives are formatted for Mac (HFS+), all partitions must be erased, including the EFI partition.
Windows Disk Management cannot erase the EFI partition so you must run Diskpart, a separate Windows utility.
For additional information on Diskpart, click
here
.
Important info: Cleaning hard drives is data destructive. If you have data on the LaCie 2big, LaCie
recommends that you back up all files before following the steps below.